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Christopher R. Udry is an American economist who currently serves as King Professor of Economics at Northwestern University.Udry is the co-founder (with Dean Karlan) and current co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab at the Kellogg School of Management.
In 2017, Karlan moved to Northwestern University alongside colleague Christopher Udry to co-direct the university's new Global Poverty Research Lab, based at the Kellogg School of Management. [ 6 ]
BREAD organizes and co-organizes conferences on the microeconomics of development, including the annual BREAD Conference on Development Economics. Recent editions have been hosted by the University of Michigan, [3] the Global Poverty Research Lab at Northwestern University, [4] and the Development Research Institute at New York University. [5]
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is an American non-profit research and policy organization founded in 2002 by economist Dean Karlan. [1] Since its foundation, IPA has worked with over 400 leading academics to conduct over 900 evaluations in 52 countries. [2] The organization also manages the Poverty Probability Index.
Additionally, Qian has done extensive research on the Chinese economy. Qian has consulted for the World Bank, the Global Development Network and the China Development Bank. She is the co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab, the founder of China Econ Lab, and co-organizer of the China NBER Workshop and an expert for VOX China.
Dean Karlan, American economist at Northwestern University; co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies; founded Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), a New Haven, Connecticut, based research outfit dedicated to creating and evaluating solutions to social and international development problems.
J-PAL was founded in 2003 as the "Poverty Action Lab" by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Sendhil Mullainathan, all of the economics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [4] Initial funding for the research center was approved by MIT economics department chair Bengt Holmström in an effort to convince Duflo and her ...
She is a behavioral economist and sociologist who studies poverty and education. Her research examines the role of money in parenting outcomes. [ 1 ] She was previously the director of Northwestern / Chicago 's Joint Center on Poverty Research, and is currently the co-director of the Behavioral Insights in Parenting Lab with fellow University ...